Evening Update: Trudeau and other ministers testify at foreign interference inquiry

Good evening, let’s start with today’s top stories:The public inquiry into foreign interference, led by Quebec Court of Appeal Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, heard today from cabinet ministers Karina Gould, Bill Blair and Dominic LeBlanc, as well as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Here are highlights from each of them.Government House Leader Karina Gould was minister of democratic institutions from Feb. 1, 2017, until Nov. 20, 2019. Gould said in the prehearing interview that, after the 2019 election, she was informed “CSIS had observed low-level foreign interference activities by China, similar to what had been seen in the past.” The threshold for telling the public about interference attempts during an election was high, she said, because doing so could itself be seen as interference.